"SHI AN (MYANMAR) Factory workers are working without benefits", 2 February 2024

...According to the workers, the SHI AN (MYANMAR) garment factory, which is operating with more than 800 workers on Prince Kyi Road, Kannaung Industrial Zone (2), is working without benefits.

It is reported that the factory... is sewing [for] the JACK&JONES brand and does not have a union in the workplace.

[The factory is not allowing] casual leave that workers are entitled to, not giving medical leave...Whether it is an emergency or not, if the employee complains about the leave but the employer does not give permission, the salary will be cut off...The worker said that the daily wage (20,000 kyats) was cut to a total of (25,800 kyats).

Even though social security contributions have been added, workers are said to be suffering because they are not entitled to medical leave.

"...The cloths that have to be sewn by hand...without drinking water, and....without going to the toilet, [as] it is difficult to meet the [target] requested by the employer. If the [worker] does not meet the [target], the workers will be fired from the top of the machine line. The worker said that they are having a hard time because they are being treated with unacceptable behavior every day, calling them names and yelling at them.

...because of pressure...they don't have [time] to eat during their meal breaks, and they have to sew without breaks to meet the [target] requested by their employers...

[Translation via Google Translate]